My New Years Resolutions.
2012 was a great year for me in the way of things that happened I gave birth to my beautiful little girl in June and I moved into a new lovely house. But emotionally 2012 was not a good year I found I lost all my confidence and even the trust in my partner, me and my partner also struggled with adjusting to the change in our relationship after the new arrival in are lives and have had are ups and downs. After getting things back on track with my partner I have decided that it's time to start focusing on myself and getting things back on track with me. This will mean making more effort with my appearance, taking better care of myself and to get on top of my anxiety that I suffer from.
I want to use this blog to write down a post once a month that documents my progress throughout the year so that come 2014 I can look back onto my profile and see the change and improvement I have made within myself.
POSTED BY Katie Lodge ON Thursday, 3 January 2013 @ 02:38
Hello Kitty beaker my sister bought from Zurich, put my Christmas tree up, cut myself a fringe, doing some personal touches to my home, roast dinner I made, baked myself a cake, my gorgeous daughter Erika-Jane getting ready for Grandma's, watched lawless with my boyfriend my new favorite film.
so haven't posted in a while after promising to get more updates on here. Will definitely be posting more this week as my partner is on lates so i will get the evening to myself.
POSTED BY Katie Lodge ON Sunday, 2 December 2012 @ 05:34
1. Pink cake dome from Amazon £45.00 - I have a pink kitchen as I will probably post about but as well as my love of my pink kitchen I also do a lot of baking so this would be the perfect way to display my cakes and would be great to have another nik nak to put in my forever growing kitchen.
2. Bake kitchens sign from Ebay - again as you can tell the theme for my Christmas list is mostly home and baking stuff. This would look great on my window sill and something I have always wanted to own.
3. Yankee Christmas cookie candle from most shops - I love Yankee candles and love even more the Christmas collection. For my birthday I bought these in the tea light form I am so impressed with the smell I want the bigger size. Would go lovely in my sitting room this Christmas.
4. Shabby Chic cookbook stand from Ebay - afraid this is another kitchen item on my wish list but I cannot help it, it's too cute.
5. Kitchen Aid in Pink Amazon £410 - This item will definitely be on my wish list for a very long time due to the price but in my wildest dreams I would love to own this for my baking and for my kitchen. It's the best of the best and would really be useful for my as I have problems with the normal hand held electric whisks.
6. Cath Kidston radio from Amazon £110 - Have always wanted one of these and at this price i'm sure this will also be one that has to wait for a while.
Labels: cake dome, christmas, kitchen aid, nigella, pink, wishlist
POSTED BY Katie Lodge ON Monday, 12 November 2012 @ 09:21
Superdrug - £5.99
I started about a month a go wanting to take better care of my skin, I had a look at the Liz Earle hot cloth cleanser and really wanted to try it the only thing that put me off was the price. It was so expensive I didn't want to spend that much money and be disappointed. Then I came across Superdrugs version of it for nearly a quarter of the price, I decided that since it was so cheap i'd buy the matching day and night creams and facial scrub with it all coming to the grand total of around £11.00. I started using this around three weeks ago, once in the morning and once in the evening I love the texture of the product, it is so smooth and rubs onto the skin beautifully while the smell is not the best smell in the world I wouldn't expect much more from a store brand product. I noticed a difference in my skin with the first use my skin was so smooth, blemish free and clear it looked as though I had make up on! I was half expecting my skin to break out a little with this product as I suffer from sensitive and breakout prone skin but after three weeks I would say my breakouts are less and I still see the effect. I haven't tried using this to take my make up yet as i would like to preserve my muslin cloth as much as possible. I would overall say if you wanted to try the Liz Earle product but are a bit strapped for cash or even just wanted a bargain I would definitely give this ago and when mine runs out I will be re buying!
Labels: face care, hot cloth cleanser, vitamin e
POSTED BY Katie Lodge @ 07:37
Started wearing glasses, my phone home screen, new table and rug, Erika-Jane standing up on her own, Erika-Jane first attempt and baby lead weaning, me before going to my boyfriends mum, Christmas cookie scented candle, baking a victoria sponge with my pink baking bow.
Been such a hectic week this week, I got told I would need glasses around a week and a half ago and on Friday go to pick them up, super nervous about wearing glasses but quite excited at the same time. I also had Erika-Jane do a first first she did her first baby lead weaning experience and ate some buttery toast fingers as you can tell by her face she loved it! She has also started to be able to hold herself up now on the table and I had some decorating to do and furniture to by, inbetween this I have had the usual mummy and housewife duties.
Labels: baby, christmas cookie, instagram, pink
POSTED BY Katie Lodge @ 07:21
Little Mix - DNA
My song of the week this week is Little Mix DNA, I quite liked this group last year on the x factor and was happy when they won it and was excited to see there first album being released. After their release of Wings I was quite disappointed with it as expected something a bit more poppy old school kind of girl band so I was pleasantly surprised and happy to hear DNA it reminds me of the spice girls and girls aloud. I look forward to the release of their new album and hope to hear a few more songs like this. It's Definitely a grower and can see it doing very well in the charts.
POSTED BY Katie Lodge @ 07:08
Here are some recent pictures of Erika-Jane I hate to be bias but I can't help but think she is the most gorgeous girl in the world and I cannot believe something so perfect came from me and my boyfriend. Anyway she is at the moment 4 1/2 weeks and i decided yesterday to dress her up in her Halloween costume to try it on for size. Will be buying her another one though as I will now be putting her in this a lot more often. This weekend she also impressed me with a new thing she does, she now eats rusk biscuits using her hands and picking them up, this is the first time she has done this. On top of this she is also starting to sit up on her own and really shouldn't be long until she does. Safe to say this weekend I have been one proud mama!
POSTED BY Katie Lodge ON Monday, 15 October 2012 @ 05:40
